Let Features Decide Their Own Solvers: Hybrid Feature Caching for Diffusion Transformers

Shikang Zheng, Guantao Chen, Qinming Zhou, Yuqi Lin, Lixuan He, Chang Zou, Peiliang Cai, Jiacheng Liu, Linfeng Zhang

International Conference on Learning Representations 2026 (ICLR 2026) Conference

Diffusion Transformers offer state-of-the-art fidelity in image and video synthesis, but their iterative sampling process remains a major bottleneck due to the high cost of transformer forward passes at each timestep. To mitigate this, feature caching has emerged as a training-free acceleration technique that reuses hidden representations. However, existing methods often apply a uniform caching strategy across all feature dimensions, ignoring their heterogeneous dynamic behaviors. Therefore, we adopt a new perspective by modeling hidden feature evolution as a mixture of ODEs across dimensions, and introduce \textbf{HyCa}, a Hybrid ODE solver inspired caching framework that applies dimension-wise caching strategies. HyCa achieves near-lossless acceleration across diverse tasks and models, including 5.55$\times$ speedup on FLUX, 5.56$\times$ speedup on HunyuanVideo, 6.24$\times$ speedup on Qwen-Image and Qwen-Image-Edit without retraining.